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Turkey's Identity

Updated Nov. 12, 2001 5:28 p.m. ET

Your article ("Talking Turkey") misses one important point. Turkey is not a Muslim country, it is a country with an anti-religious government that just happens to have a majority Muslim population.&nbsp; The Turkish government is known to be anti-Islamic in its policies.&nbsp;The Turkish government is clearly trying as much as it can to please the EU in the hope of joining soon.&nbsp;Turkey has an identity crises.&nbsp;It is trying to portray itself as a European country when it is not.&nbsp;It feels it can do so by oppressing any kind of Islamism to look and feel more European.&nbsp;...